[ATTW-L] open source resources for intro to tech comm

[Hocutt, Daniel]

Alison,

I’ll second Jonathan’s recommendation of open-tc.com<http://open-tc.com/>, which I’m using this semester as a result of attending a session where he presented at CTSPC. I also used Technical Writing<https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/>, an OER textbook, in an earlier tech comm intro course. While I needed to supplement both with additional resources, especially genre-specific instruction and examples, these texts did a fine job of providing the overview to tech comm I was looking for.

Cheers,
Daniel

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Daniel L. Hocutt, PhD
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University of Richmond
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From: ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces at attw.org> on behalf of Alison Cardinal <acardin at uw.edu>
Date: Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 2:54 PM
To: "attw-l at attw.org" <attw-l at attw.org>
Subject: [ATTW-L] open source resources for intro to tech comm

Hi all,
I was wondering if anybody could share what types of open source resources they use for a 200-level tech comm course. I'm trying to move away from expensive textbooks. What do folks use? I know there is a ton of stuff on medium, etc. by practitioners but was wondering if there is anything else out there I'm missing. I would be very grateful if anybody would send me their sans textbook syllabus.
Thank you so much,
Alison

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Alison Cardinal, Ph.D.
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Writing Studies
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
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University of Washington, Tacoma,
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